3Ware 9500S-4LP Installation Guide - Page 56

Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs, Enter

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Configuring Units 3 Tab to OK and press Enter. After you start your system, you will see multiple volumes available in the operating system: 2 TB each, plus one volume with any remaining storage beyond the multiple of 2TB. (In this release, 3BM does not show individual volumes.) Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs), they will not be available to the operating system. If you want to be able to use individual drives, configure them as single-disk units. If you have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that you want to use with the 9000 controller, see "Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller" on page 23. 48 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide

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Configuring Units
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3
Tab to
OK
and press
Enter
.
After you start your system, you will see multiple volumes
available in the operating system: 2 TB each, plus one volume
with any remaining storage beyond the multiple of 2TB. (In this
release, 3BM does not show individual volumes.)
Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs
By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs),
they will not be available to the operating system. If you want to be
able to use individual drives, configure them as single-disk units.
If you have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that you want to
use with the 9000 controller, see “Moving Units from an 8000
Controller to a 9000 Controller” on page 23.